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Becoming Madame Mao

by Anchee Min · 2001

From the national bestselling author of Red Azalea: "Extraordinary . . . Min lets [Madame Mao] be seen as never before. Bottom line: riveting" ( People). In a sweeping, erotically charged story, Anchee Min creates a finely nuanced portrait of one of the most fascinating, and vilified, women of the twentieth century. Madame Mao is almost universally known as the "white-boned demon"—ambitious, vindictive, and cruel—whose bid to succeed her husband led to the death of millions. But Anchee Min's story begins with a young girl named Yunhe, the unwanted daughter of a concubine who ignored her mother

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